>But when you compare it to Java and C#, C++11, the language (based on language specification word/page count), is smaller than Java

I watched the presentation where Herb Sutter said that, and I think that claim is disingenuous, because the Java Language Specification is much wordier than the C++ spec.

For example, the section on integer literals in the JLS is 1.5 times longer (measured by word count) than the same section in the latest C++ draft. Is it because Java's literals are more complex than C++? No, it's because of things like explicitly listing the minumum and maximum numeric values of int and long literals (in each of decimal, hex, octal and binary)

In general, I think that the terseness of the C++ spec is not a good measure of the relative simplicity of C++.